Re: Reinstallation

2004-03-31 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 01 April 2004 06:36, S. Barret Dolph wrote: > The message reads, from a Mandrake installation, There was an error > installing packages XXX. Do you wish to continue. This goes through every > package I selected. > > File partitions. I used fdisk to partition and then put Reseirfs on

Re: reinstall continued

2004-03-31 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 01 April 2004 06:46, S. Barret Dolph wrote: > I used fdisk to clear all partitions. But when I boot up my box I still get > a splash screen with two kernels listed. Where are those kernels? The kernels are gone if you used fdisk but you did not clear the MBR. http://www.computing.net/l

Noflushd usage

2004-03-31 Thread Joshua Rogers
Slightly curious here. I have fairly new computer here that I got from walmart.com maybe 4 months ago. I decided to install linux and windows on it. Ok. I installed a 100Gb harddrive into the computer that has all my data on it. And the drive sounds like a jet plane. How can I (or can I n

reinstall continued

2004-03-31 Thread S. Barret Dolph
I used fdisk to clear all partitions. But when I boot up my box I still get a splash screen with two kernels listed. Where are those kernels? Cordially, S. Barret Dolph - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Reinstallation

2004-03-31 Thread S. Barret Dolph
The message reads, from a Mandrake installation, There was an error installing packages XXX. Do you wish to continue. This goes through every package I selected. File partitions. I used fdisk to partition and then put Reseirfs on them. Then I let Mandrake do the partitioning automatically

Re: inittab

2004-03-31 Thread Beolach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On other thing I want to mention: the way you have it now, you're running the `XFree86 -query 192.168.0.1 :1 vt08` command on all runlevels 1-5, you may only want to run it on runlevel 4 (Slackware's X runlevel). If you do only want it on runlevel 4,

Re: inittab

2004-03-31 Thread Beolach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: > Good morning, > > Following is from /etc/inittab on a client running Slackware-9.0. > > # These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode: > c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux > c2:1235:respawn:/

Re: inittab

2004-03-31 Thread Onur Kucuk
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:51:38 +0200 Andrew Langdon-Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning, > > Following is from /etc/inittab on a client running Slackware-9.0. > > # These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode: > c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux > c2:12

fedora Up2date

2004-03-31 Thread Rei Shinozuka
i am new to fedora (i guess to some extent we all are) anyway, i started the Up2date from the exclamation point icon on the toolbar as root, and it seems to be successfully getting packages (some number of which it complains are corrupted)... but it's so slow! it's been running for a couple of d

inittab

2004-03-31 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
Good morning, Following is from /etc/inittab on a client running Slackware-9.0. # These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode: c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux c4:1235:respa